Minoritized Racial and Ethnic Groups

Health research in the United States has been a vehicle of racism, perpetuating chronic health inequities. The authors posit that researchers and research institutions must seek to redress these issues and develop an antiracist health equity praxis. Existing frameworks (critical race public health praxis and intersectionality theory) can form the basis of this praxis—the application of theory to practices. Community-based participatory research is a methodological approach consistent with an antiracist health equity praxis to ensure ethical research with racial and ethnic minorities. The authors propose four tenets central to ethical research with racial and ethnic minoritized communities: trustworthiness, reflexivity, shared power, and capacity-building. The authors define each tenet, propose questions to interrogate one’s research and offer examples of specific strategies to apply to future research studies and partnerships with minoritized racial and ethnic groups.